Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-05-19
SIGNIFICANT APPLAUSE.

1t is perhaps fortunate that President
Cleveland was not present at Miss Fields
lecture last Tt ly evening. He would
have marveled greatly at the relative en-
thusiasm inspired by the mentioning of
different names connected with Utah
legislation in Congress. He would have
wondered, when the gifted lady
paid her eloquent tribute to John Ran
dolph Tucker, and the Democratic House
of Congress, that passed the bill, which
nearly every Gentle in Utah
at least professed to favor,
why the panegyrical outburst was
greeted with approbative response
from such limited number of hands and
canes. His heart would have melted
with sympathy for the embarrassed lee
turer, who vainly,waited for the tumultu-
GUS and prolonged applause which her
eloquence merited, and which she evil
IDENTIFY believed the subject Of her enco-
MUM would inspire. The Presidents
sstonishment would have increased when,
upon casual mention of the Senator
who snatshed victory from loyal hands
when almost within their grasp, the
house was shaken almost to its founda-
ton by the uproarious enthusiasm of the
assembled patriots. 1t would have been
difficult for his Excellency to
have accounted for this marked
and seemingly strange distinction.
He probably would not have been
able TO comprehend why the author and
champion of the measure, which he had
been given to understand was unani-
mously demanded by Utah's loyal
people, should be held in such slight
estimation by those whose banner
he had VIGOROUSLY borne through
his division OF the battlefield, and
handed unsoiled and untorn to the sup
posed chieftain who was expected to
bear it triumphantly through the easier
stages Of the conflict, the result of which
was regarded as already decided. Ifpos-
sible he would have been even more
astounded at the manifest approval of
the course of the recreant Senator who
blasted every loyal hope; brought sor-
row and humiliation to every American
heart and shame to every Gentle
home in Utah. We say it
,-os so.4,,.o4o tboE 4lo Dras;dapt
was not present to witness this. He
would most certainly have been unable
to understand why Utah's staunchest
friend should be ignored and the de-
stroyer of her hopes almost deifed by
Gentle audience assembled in the
metropolis of the Mormon Empire.
1t would have been difficult, moreover,
TO have made him such explanation as
would not be likely 10 initiate against
the general cause. We fear that he
would lave suspected that Republican
enmity was preferable to Demo-
cratic friendship, and that favorable
Executive action upon his part would
be ungraciously received if not scorn-
fully rejected. Perhaps Miss Field her.
self may during her present visit, learn
some new facts concerning the obstacles
which beset the path to loyal
supremacy in Utah. 1t is possible
that she might, by careful inquiry,
possess herself Of information which
would enable her to add some useful
suggestions to her forcible and whole
some admonition to the Gentiles to ignore
politics in behalf of the loyal
cause, and stand shoulder to shoulder
in solid phalanx against the common
enemy. We are confident that such par
tisan manifestations as she witnessed last
Tuesday evening, will 80 commend itself
toher sound judgment as unlikely to effect
such unity as she so strongly recon-
mendnd